Attendance Boundary Policies and the Limits to Combating School Segregation
利用丹麦儿童的全样本数据，研究重新划分入学边界对学校隔离的影响，发现家庭会抵制被分配到社会经济地位较低的学校，且资源丰富的家庭对学校学生构成更敏感，导致政策效果有限。
What is the efficacy of redrawing school attendance boundaries as a desegregation policy? To provide causal evidence on this question, we employ novel data with unprecedented detail on the universe of Danish children and exploit changes in attendance boundaries over time. Households defy reassignments to schools with lower socioeconomic status. There is a strong social gradient in defiance, as resourceful households are more sensitive to the student composition of new schools. We simulate school assignment policies and find that boundary changes that reassign areas to a highly disadvantaged school are ineffective at altering the socioeconomic composition at the disadvantaged school.